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Hunger and famine in the long Nineteenth Century. Volume IV, Slaughter and 'Scuttle': trouble at home and abroad (1870-1914)

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This volume examines the rhetorics used around race and famine in the colonies vis-a-vis the persistence of hunger and poverty in the island nation/empire. As William Booth reminded the British in ...

This volume examines the rhetorics used around race and famine in the colonies vis-a-vis the persistence of hunger and poverty in the island nation/empire. As William Booth reminded the British in his aptly titled In Darkest England (1890), one need not look further than London's underbelly to find intractable hunger.

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